English Dictionary

gin

IPA（発音記号）

/d͡ʒɪn/

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument. / (obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare. / A snare or trap for game.

日本語の意味

仕掛け、器具（古風な意味での道具） / 策略、計略（工夫された計略） / 獲物を捕らえるための罠

He was accused of using a gin to deceive the town council.

彼は町議会を欺くためにたくらみを使ったと非難された。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.

[…]The hole wyth waxe, to kepe the limayle in / And vnderſtandeth that thys falſe gyn / was not made there[…] […]the hole with wax to keep the filings in—and understand, this fake device wasn’t made there[…].

意味（2）

(obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.

The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]

意味（3）

A snare or trap for game.

意味（4）

A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

意味（5）

(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

意味（6）

A pile driver.

意味（7）

A windpump.

意味（8）

A cotton gin.

意味（9）

An instrument of torture worked with screws.

gins （ plural ）